A man passed away looking for discs in a lake at a disc golf course where individuals are cautioned by regularly posted signs to be wary of alligators, police in Florida stated on May 31st. The unknown man was searching for flying discs in the water and “a gator was involved,” the Largo Police Department stated in an e-mail.
The man who passed away was 47 years of age, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission stated in an e-mail. The commission stated a contracted professional was working to eliminate an alligator from the lake “and efforts will be made to determine if it was involved in this situation.”
The park’s site notes that clients can “discover the sport of disc golf on a course set in the natural beauty of this park.” The course is set along the lake, which has no-swimming signs posted along with it.
Individuals who typically walk the disc course stated it’s not uncommon for somebody to try to find lost discs that can cost a couple of dollars.
”These are people that are down on their luck,” Ken Hostnick, 56, told the Tampa Bay Times. “Sometimes they dive in the lakes, they’ll pull out 40 discs. You may sell them for five bucks a piece, and you may sell them for 10 bucks a piece, depending on the quality.”
Now, cops are informing individuals to prevent the lake while the examination continues.
Alligators are discovered nearly all over in Florida where there is any sort of water. The wildlife commission states there have actually been no deadly alligator attacks in Florida given that 2019, although animals and individuals have actually been bitten from time to time.
Wildlife authorities tension that nobody ought to approach a wild alligator or feed them, due to the fact that the reptiles then associate individuals with food. This can be more bothersome in inhabited locations such as apartment buildings where individuals walk pets and have little kids.
As soon as thought about threatened animals in Florida however have actually given that grown and can be discovered practically anywhere in the state, alligators were.
H/T The Epoch Times
